Chapter Five
At the front of the Arcade Darien sat down in the seat that had only been recently vacated by Serena, "One black coffee please Andrew," he said,
"Hello, to you too, coming up," he said walking to the coffee machine and then came back with a cup and gave it to him. "What's up?"
"Oh just stuff, weird dreams and stuff,"
"Weird dreams? Like the one's you were having before you left about the Princess and stuff? (FYI Andrew knows about the fact that he is tuxedo mask)
"I am surprised you still remember those, but not this time, about Sailor Moon, this time, I am guessing this is just strange but it turns out in the dream she hates Tuxedo Mask, I was like watching kind of thing and he was commenting on how she acted and her attitude and stuff, all so strange."
"You have to stop drinking the coffee, mate," he said adding a bit of Australian twang to it, trying to match the small accent that Darien had acquired.
"Okay then what do you suggest then?"
"How about water? Better for the System" he laughed and gave him a glass of water.
"Okay then, from now on no more coffee, Seen Usagi, no sorry, Serena today?" He corrected himself.
"No doesn't usually come in anymore," he lied, knowing that Serena could probably hear their conversation.
"Oh okay then, thought maybe you could tell me if she was okay,"
"Well according to the grapevine (Mina) you left her at your apartment, and now she calls you a jerk,"
"Oh, okay then,"
"Why did you leave her there?" he asked deciding that he was going to find out,
"Because I had to be somewhere else," he simply stated,
"Do you love her?"
"I don't know Andrew,"
"How did you leave her?"
"I stopped mid-kiss and left"
"Darien, how could you!" Andrew said about ready to grill him, "You know you have now up to date done that to her twice and I am surprised that she isn't here trying to get a brain freeze trying to forget you,"
"She does that"
"You saw her yesterday, only in dire circumstances. But I have heard she has a tendency to drown everything in Beer,"
"Okay then . . ." Darien trailed off.
"Mind you she just goes to sleep when she drinks it, so it is only half good because she doesn't do anything stupid."
"Oh," Darien just said, looking at the clear liquid in his glass.
"So what are you going to tell her?"
"That I am sorry, but no chance of seeing her again though, I mean if she can avoid her friends and you so well, no chance on seeing her." he sighed and continued to look at the glass, and Andrew went off to serve some customers.
Serena meanwhile was studying the book so contently that she didn't hear their conversation, it was telling her about the History of the moon and how they were attacked, everything she already knew, being a sailor scout. "Damned this," she muttered to herself and slammed the book closed. She exited through the back door of The Arcade so that Darien wouldn't see her and went and transformed into Sailor Moon, "I am going to find this jerk, and she pulled out her Crescent wand and jumped to the top of the building and stood looking around Tokyo. She knew when she was Sailor Moon she had a connection to Tuxedo especially when she was in trouble, so she let out a gut wrenching scream, Darien heard this scream and pulled out a rose and transformed, running to the point where Sailor Moon was feigning injuring. When she saw him coming she laid as still as she could so that he would come up closer to her. When he was two meter's away she got up and spat, "I want the crystal's back."
"Why Sailor Moon?" he asked shocked that she was hurt,
"Because I need them and you obviously have no use for them, now do you?"
"How do you know I don't have use for them, and what is with all your hatred?"
"You would have used them and found the princess by now, having them for like five years now, my hatred well, you invaded my dreams and tried to insult me,"
"You had the same dream?"
"Yes, and you know full well."
"But Sailor Moon, people don't change that much, to have you change form a weak delicate klutzy flower to an aggressive rock, is very much impossible,"
"You want to test you theory, cape boy?" she spat clearly insulted by the way he attacked her.
"I don't fight women, simple as that,"
"Scared?"
"No, I am not, I just have principles"
"Sure," Sailor Moon took two steps forward and hit him square in the Jaw.
"Ow," said tuxedo mask as he stumbled because from the force of the hit. "What was that for?"
"For insulting me," she said stepping back, "Give me the crystals?" she said again.
"No, Sailor Moon," and he walked up and grabbed both of Sailor Moon's hands and to pin them behind her back he turned her around. Sailor Moon struggled against
Him, but him being obviously stronger then her, she couldn't win, "I hate you," she spat at him.
"You sure about that Sailor Moon," he whispered seductively in her ear, letting his lips brush against her ear, Sailor Moon felt her knees go weak, but she kept them Straight and strong.
"I am quite sure, you left before our last battle I could have used the support against the Negaverse, more than I had." she said as she stood there.
"And how do you know I wasn't there Sailor Moon" running his lips over her neck trying to make her forget the crystals.
"Stop it Tuxedo Mask, I want the crystals, I need to find the princess," she said trying to struggle again from his grip and stop him from trying to seduce her.
"Why so urgent Sailor Moon,"
"For reason's I need not explain to you, now just let go of me," and with her crescent moon mark on her forehead appearing she got out of Tuxedo Mask's grip. He Looked at his hands and said "Why did you do that? That hurt."
"I didn't do anything, Tuxedo Mask, just give me those crystals" she said jumping back from him.
"And I say again Sailor Moon, NO!"
Suddenly Sailor Moon bent double and started to breathe heavily. 'Another Youma?' she whispered to herself, wondering where this pain was coming from.
"Are you alright Sailor Moon?" he asked stepping closer to her.
"Stay away form me, I will be back, I have to save some innocents" she said and jumped off down the building and hit the ground running, where she came head to head With a very vicious looking Enemy, "I thought you were back miss Moon, been waiting for a while." it said looking at her with an evil glint in his eyes.
"What do you want?"
"To fight you simple."
"Bring it on." and she readied herself for an attack, the attack came in the form of knifes which somehow caught off guard and cut her stomach, "You are not getting away with that" and she shouted pulling out her Moon sceptre "Moon Sceptre Elimination" and moon dusted the enemy, she fell to her knees and put her hand on her Stomach and looked at her hand, blood, "Great just bloody great" she said to herself, she then teleported herself to her apartment and de-transformed back to Serena, she took off her shirt that was now stained with blood and walked into her bathroom and grabbed her first aid kit and started to stem the blood flow and Bandaging herself up, the cuts not being big enough for stitches but enough to let out allot of blood. "Great," she said out loud. "I don't have the crystals and I now have a huge gash to deal with," Serena went to bed after getting a drink of water, and woke up the next morning at 9 am.
Once she dressed and found her legends book, so that she could continue reading it, she headed down to the arcade just to start changing her lifestyle, becoming sailor Moon again had made her start to think about how she had been acting for the past five years was stupid. When she reached the Arcade she ordered an Iced Chocolate from Andrew and sat down next to the wall at the counter. She opened her book and started to read until Andrew came up to her with her Iced Chocolate and asked, "Everything alright Serena?"
"Oh yes, totally, Andrew, why would anything be wrong?" she asked,
"You just seem a bit pale,"
"Oh, I am fine really, I am,"
"Okay then, what you doing today?"
"Reading really is about it, nothing I really have to do, all the girls are at work and well I have been meaning to read this book for months."
"Oh okay then, that's cool" he said leaving her to her reading.
As Serena Delved further into the book, she learnt more and more about life on the moon and how the princess of the moon and the Prince of the Earth had a Thing for each other. While she was reading she didn't realize that Darien had come in and had sat down next to her and was watching her read. After about a minute He spoke up "Hello, Serena,"
This snapped her out of her concentration on the book, and she fell to the floor from shock. She looked up from the ground and saw that it was Darien and she struggled to get up, trying not to make her wound bleed. Once she was back up on the stool she said, "Hi, Darien," and she looked art her shirt to make sure it didn't have any blood on it from the fall.
"Are you alright Serena?" he asked
"Yea, sure, fine." she said very quickly.
"Right," he said very slowly.
"I am okay, what have you been up to?" she asked pretending on forgetting the other night,
"Nothing, but I would like to talk to you in private."
"This is private,"
"Can we just go sit over in a booth, just so we aren't disturbed Serena?"
"Fine," she sighed and slowly made her way over to the back booth.
"Serena, are you sure you are alright?" he asked worriedly noticing how she was walking over to the table.
"Fine, okay, just fine," she said, "What is it you want to talk about?"
"About the other night I am sorry I left,"
"Why did you leave?"
"I don't know, I mean, I guess I do know, it is just that, I had to be somewhere for something very important."
"Look Darien, you don't have to explain okay, I am not holding any grudges I mean, you left for five years, no communications what so ever so how can you are expected To even have any feelings for me after that, it is okay" Serena looked down at her shirt and saw that she had bled through the bandages. "Damn" she whispered to herself.
"Serena, why are you bleeding?" Darien asked now getting up to check her stomach.
"Don't touch it okay, I can deal with it."
"No you can't, How did you get it?"
Serena mumbled something about a fight, which got Darien even more worried, "Why are you fighting Serena?"
"Because I am a police officer, however put on Temporary extended leave because of Mental Issues."
"Police officer? Shouldn't they like have taken you to the hospital?"
"NO, I was off duty," knowing that he wouldn't see through a lie if she made it.
"Then why haven't you had it checked out Serena?"
"Because I have my reasons" she said, knowing that it would have turned black by now because it was a Negaverse cut and wouldn't heal until she went and saw Ami or Hotaru.
"You are coming with me Serena, and he led her out through the back door that she took out of the arcade the day before. He picked her up and took her to his apartment, taking the back roads through to his apartment, he put her down on her couch and grabbed his own medical kit, he came back two seconds later and pulled up her shirt so that he could see the wound and cut off the blood stained bandages that Serena had applied herself, The cuts had turned black and green, and Darien
Asked, "When did you get these Serena?"
"Last night," she whispered because of the pain,
"How did they get so bad?" he asked as he applied some iodine solution to clean them,
She whispered inaudibly, "Negaverse" but she fainted from the pain.
Darien cleaned up the wounds as best as he could and tried to wake her up to give her some panadol, after about five minutes she woke up and saw Darien sitting there trying to wake her up she said "What?"
"Take this," he said shoving it down her throat before she could protest.
She coughed a few times and then swallowed. "Thanks"
"No problems, but I want to know exactly how you got these cuts Serena." he demanded at her.
"Well, I can't tell you, but I wouldn't of had these cuts if it wasn't because of Tuxedo Mask." she said off handily.
"What has he got to do with this?"
"Don't worry, Darien, Don't worry," she said realizing what she said,
"Serena what aren't you telling me?" he begged,
"Just give me my book and forget about it."
Darien passed her, her book and she started reading, completely zoning out on the world. Darien went into his kitchen and put on the kettle and was thinking to himself
'Why would Mask have anything to do with Serena getting hurt? What was I doing last night, trying to convince Sailor Moon, that she didn't want the crystals, what am I going to with the crystals, I have to join them somehow.' Darien was pulled out of his thoughts when Serena squealed, "Yes found it"
"What did you find Serena? He said as he dashed back to the lounge room making sure she wasn't moving.
"Just the answer to all my problems," she said with a smile.
"Oh and that is?" he asked looking at the ecstatic girl,
"How to get something to work." she said simply.
"How can you find out how something works, if you are reading a book on the legend of the Moon?" He said,
"Oh well, I have been looking for an answer to this issue I have been having for like five years now and well, finally I can get the answers that I need."
"Okay well when you feel like telling me what you are going on about, let me know." he said.
"You probably would like to know now wouldn't you, but you see I don't think I could trust you Tuxedo Mask." she said looking at Darien's face.
"What are you going on about Serena?"
"I know exactly who you are, Darien isn't a very common name you know, and it is the only person who has ever had that name is the Prince of the Earth who is actually Tuxedo Mask."
"And how do you know this?"
"This legends book, and a little bit of research."
"So what if I am Tuxedo, Serena, that doesn't change who I am,"
"No but it makes everything so much easier for me."
"Right, then, no wonder you an on permanent temporary leave from work, you are going crazy." he turned and walked back to the Kitchen, very confused. Meanwhile Serena had grabbed out her Crescent Wand and called the Crystal's knowing full well what she was doing, they came to her and she whispered an Incantation that was written in the book, and the crystals became the Imperial Silver Crystals, when Darien returned he noticed that she had Sailor Moon's wand and There was the Imperial Silver Crystal sitting in it, then it dawned on him, "Serena, are you Sailor Moon?"
"Funny you should ask, but yes I am," she said icily at him, "and now I have the crystal which means I can finally find the princess."
"Sailor Moon or not you are not leaving until you are healed, if that is a Negaverse cut, that will take a few days to heal properly."
"No it won't, I have people I can see about it," She then transformed into Sailor Moon and Teleported herself and the crystal to Hotaru.
